"Divine"'s Good

That Friday's afternoon, Jonathan, Jeff, Amanda (who is Jeff's
girlfriend as you may remember), and I arrived at Erisa's home
carrying a lot of makeup and female care accessories. We ringed the
doorbell, and Erisa's mother answered.

We entered the house, climbed the stairs and knocked on the door to
Erisa's room. "Come in" we heard her say within a large amount of
heavy metal noise.

We opened the door. Erisa was sitting next to the computer, doing
something and as we entered she turned to face us. "Hi guys!" she
said, "Whow, what are all these things?"

"We are making you ready for the date tonight." I said.

"What? You mean a makeover? No way I'm letting you…"

"Yes way, and we can do it the easy way or the hard way."

Erisa rose up from her chair, "The hard way", she said as she
positioned herself in a defensive position, with her fists clenched,
"you'll have to get me first.".

"Let me take care of this", Jeff said, "I have a black belt in Karate."

"I'll take care of it.", I said. I approached Erisa, quickly grabbed
her hands, pushed her against the wall, and spread her hands across.
She kicked my feet with hers - it hurt a bit but was nothing I couldn't
handle. "I go to the gym twice a week with Taylor. Weight training,
among other things.", I told her.

"I can see that, Ms. America…" she barked at me, "OK, OK, I'll let
you get on with this makeover thing."

I let her go. "Do you promise?"

"I swear by Life, Liberty and Tux the Penguin that I will let you do
the makeover, while being fully cooperative."

Jeff and Jonathan left the room, while Amanda and I stayed to improve
Erisa's look. The first thing we did was to take off her hair dye. Then
we instructed her to bathe and wash her hair. We washed all her makeup,
and showed her how to apply a new one in a better way. We then arranged
her hair, and asked her to choose her favourite evening dress.

She was ready shortly before Taylor arrived. We let her look at
herself at the mirror to see the improvement.

Erisa looked at herself at the mirror smiling. "Wow!" she said,
"I look… I look… nah! I'm not going to say it - it's too corny."

"Suit yourself", I said. "I think we're done with you."

"Super. Well, transformed or not, I still have my responsibilities as
a computer hacker. I left a few people in limbo when you arrived, and
hopefully can catch up with them."

Downstairs, Jeff was playing video games with Daniel, while Jonathan
was eating a fruit salad. "She's ready" I said.

"Excellent." Jeff and Jonathan said simultaneously.

We then heard a ring in the door. Erisa's mother went to answer it. It
was Taylor. He was wearing some jeans and a T-shirt. He looked OK, but
not much more than OK. He had a very nice flowers' bouquet in his
right hand, though.

"Hi Taylor!" we said one after the other.

"Hey guys, " he said, "what are you guys doing here?"

"Helping Erisa get ready for her date." I said.

"I'll get her." Amanda said, and went up the stairs.

"Don't you think you look a bit plain for the date?" I asked.

"Well, it's only a movie and a pizza. Plus, there's no way on earth
Erisa is going to look better than I am."

"Holy virgin mother of god!" exclaimed Jeff. He was looking at the
staircase where Erisa stood, descending it slowly. Her jet-black hair
was arranged in a ball and a pony tail, shining from the light.
Her dark purple dress made her look especially beautiful, and
complemented her body. She looked wonderful.

"So, " she said after she reached the ground floor, shaking her body
and extending her hands, "how do I look?"

"You look… " Taylor said, "… divine!"

Erisa thought for a moment and then said: "'Divine's good."

"Here, Erisa…"

"Hey Erisa was the old (and temporary) me. Call me Eve now."

"…Eve! Here - I brought you flowers." and he handed her the
flowers he had.

Eve (!) smelled them, and said, "they smell nice. Mom, can you put
them in a vase with some water?"

"Ahhmm… Eve, can we stop by my house and give me a chance to pick
up some better clothes?"

"Why?", Erisa said, "we're going to miss the movie."

"Well, people will look at the two of us and say: 'she is
way out of his league.!'"

Eve approached Taylor. "Well, to quote Richard P. Feynman, " she
said as she tied her arms around his neck "'What do you care what
other people think?' We both know you're a great guy and I'm so
lucky to go on a date with you. Mwaaa" and she kissed him on the
cheek.

"Well, " he said, "I guess we'd better get going. Bye all!"

"Bye!" we all said. Eve and Taylor left and Taylor gave us a thumb's
up as he left, and we gave him back.